People have abortions because they are selfish... they think 'its about me'. Its my baby, my body, my life that will change, etc. They dont think about adoption. Adoption is an option. Would you rather live with the fact that you essentially killed a baby through abortion or, live knowing that you gifted your baby to a couple who might otherwise not have had a baby and made the sacrifice and difficult decision to give your baby a life???
There are PLENTY of single moms... 50% of all marriages end in divorice and most of those end up with the children living with the mom, so do people look down at those moms? No. They think highly of them for raising kids on their own. The only reason people might look down on you is because you werent married, but Id think they would be equally as likely to look up to you for being a single mom, in college, striving to better her life... its up to the way YOU want to look at it. Who seriously cares what the others think. Does their opinion really matter?? Its not like when you go for a job interview they ask 'do you have kids? Are you a single mom? Will that require you to take tons of time off from work and waste company money"? They dont ask that stuff... they just want to see if you are qualified and most like to see degrees now.
I was in college, got pregnant at 22 (first time) with only knowing the guy 6 mos. I told my parents, planned to finish college, and raise the baby (alone if need be). I got pregnant a 2nd time, 1 year later, same man, but was still in college (took 5 years to get my degree cause I switched majors) and planned to finish and raise that baby too. So it can be done...
You should just think of this differently. Instead of a burden, think of it as a life that you can provide for or, if you arent prepared to, give up for adoption and fullfill someone elses dream of being a parent.
